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. i'll be talking with the head of allstate insurance about the massive disaster relief efforts under way, how fast are they paying the claims and what kinds of impacts investors can expect to see on the bottom line. >>> later the government's role in recovering from sandy has raised debate whether bigger government is necessarily better. we'll discuss both sides of the argument off of that hot issue in a few minutes. stay with us. >>> welcome back. one of the companies reporting earnings today in the thick of the recovery from hurricane sandy. tom wilson is ceo of allstate insurance and joins us now exclusively after reporting earnings. what timing, tom. >> hi, maria. how are you? >> i'm doing okay. i want to get to your earnings in a moment but here we are in terms of insurance being on the front center given the fact that so much destruction has occurred. let me talk about andy before we get into the earnings, tom. lot of people wondering what kind of damage we're expecting. how do you see it? >> well, this is a massive storm, maria. there's two things that drive a storm, the damag

. there's some looting going on as well. up next we have allstate's ceo coming up, a lot more on the post sandy edition of "the closing bell." >>> coming up, back to business. an historic reopening of wall street and we have all the angles covered from every exchange. who won, who lost and what companies rose above a very shaky october for the markets? >>> plus taking stock. despite sandy's path of destruction, there are lots of big earnings. we catch you up on reporting results. we bring you the latest numbers and analysis from our market experts. and is sandy a case for big government? why some are using the superstorm to say big government really is better. we separate the fact from fiction of that argument. that's all ahead on this special edition of "the closing bell." customer erin swenson bought from us online today. so, i'm happy. sales go up... i'm happy. it went out today... i'm happy. what if she's not home? (together) she won't be happy. use ups! she can get a text alert, reroute... even reschedule her package. it's ups my choice. are you happy? i'm happy. i'm happy. i'm happy

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allstate and others. it shares in frankfurt trade add building 0.15%. visa's fourth quarter profits beating forecasts. no make money from processing trk. via processed more than 14 billion transactions during the quarter and the decline in debit card volume has been slowing. >>> and barclays being accused for allegedly manipulating prices. the bank and four former traders are said to have carried on out the activity from 2006 to 2008. barclays says it will fight the agen agency. and politics in europe not getting any better. david cameron, rebels within his own party voted against his eu budget plan. not what cameron was hoping for. he's worried it could lead to britt continue leaving the european union. there's a sense here as britain goes through austerity why we continuously are upping the budget for the european union, right? which i think a lot of people -- >> no, but of course given all this in the run up to these budget talks, it's clear that any fractions are being exacerbated -- any frictions are being exacerbated within the eu, will britd continue ultimately call a referendum? >>

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. esurance. now backed by allstate. click or call. >> it is tuesday october the 30th. we have a busy day. let's get right to the extreme weather alert. monster storm sandy leaving widespread damage up and down the east coast more than 6 million people are without power and as of now 16 people are dead. >> the storm sending debris across atlantic city. streets are inundated with water over long beach island. record setting storm surges also causing massive flooding in new york city. all of the way down to virginia. sandy just hammering the coastline there as well. >> sandy dumping more than 9 inches of rain in virginia beach. image that 9 inches of rain in just a day. let's check in with our jennifer davis she is live there in virginia beach right now. jennifer massive amount of rain. how are things looking good? >> good morning there is a light rain falling. it is very cold here and it is windy. conditions are certainly better than they were the last day or two. we have snow in the southern part of the state. we have a lot of power outages and flooding in the northern part. here in virginia b

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. esurance. now backed by allstate. click or call. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." good government was in full effect and frankly mitt romney is on the wrong side of it. governor chris christie of new jersey praised the federal government and president obama in particular. >> i was on the phone for the third time yesterday, last night with the president of the united states. he called me at midnight last night. he accelerated the major disaster declaration for new jersey without the usual red tape. i can't thank the president enough for that. signed that this morning. so i have to say this. the cooperation has been great with fema here on the ground. and the cooperation from the president of the united states has been outstanding. he deserves great credit. >> mitt romney, on the other hand, cannot run from his declaration about fema during the campaign. >> every time you have an occasion that takes something from the federal government and sends it to the states, that's in the right direction. if you can send it to the private sector that's even better. we should take all of what w

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's insurance for the modern world. esurance. now backed by allstate. click or call. >>> well, with one week before the election, remember that? remember that? we've got lots of new poll numbers in the presidential race. let's go to the "hardball" scoreboard. we start in florida, of course, where a new cnn poll has mitt romney leading by one point, but a new ppp poll from florida has president obama up by one point. 49%/48%. in ohio a new ppp poll has the president leading by four, 51%/47%. new hampshire, a small state that may play a big role on election night. the new ppp poll has the president up by two there. in north carolina a new poll from elon university, shows the race tied, who would have thought that a few weeks ago finally to oregon, a state president obama won by 17 points in '08. the race is tightening there. it's down to 47%, obama, 41% for romney. we'll be right back. fire bad! just have to fire roast these tomatoes. this is going to give you a head start on your dinner. that seems easier [ female announcer ] new progresso recipe starters. five delicious cooking sauces you co

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for the modern world. esurance. now backed by allstate. click or call. >>> the president of the united states and i have now had six conversations since sunday. that shows to me a level of caring and concern and interest that i think a leader should be giving to this type of situation. this was as comfortable and relaxed an interaction as i've had with the president since i've known him. and i think it's because we're both doing what we wanted to do, which was to get things done. there will be some folks who will criticize me for complimenting him. well, you know what? i speak the truth. that's what i always do. when i got on marine one, i'm pinching myself. believe me. you know, sandy and bill christie's son on marine one was not exactly what i thought was going to be happening with my life. >> that was new jersey governor chris christie at a press conference tonight talking about his new best friend, president obama. today the white house tweeted this photo of president obama and governor christie, studying hurricane damage aboard marine one. that photo was then retweeted by governor chris

for the modern world. esurance. now backed by allstate. click or call. >>> what i can promise you is the federal government will be working as closely as possible with the state and local officials and we will not quit until this is done. >> we're going to box these things up in just a minute and put them on some trucks, and then we're going to send them into i think it's new jersey is a site that we've identified that can take these goods and distribute them to people who need them. >> oh, it's hard out there for a presidential candidate who is utterly irrelevant to the massive relief effort president obama is running in the aftermath of this week's historic storm. because the desperate and shameless romney campaign believes it cannot win the election without winning ohio, team romney pushed their poor candidate out onto a stage in ohio yesterday because the storm was still in progress in some states and the death count was climbing in new york and elsewhere. traditional political decency dictated that mitt romney not be caught campaigning yesterday. and so team romney hastily rewrote a campaig

as more dollars for you. esurance. now backed by allstate. click or call. >>> governor christie throughout this process has been responsive. he's been aggressive in making sure that the state got out in front of this incredible storm. and i think the people of new jersey recognize that he has put his heart and soul into making sure that the people of new jersey bounce back even stronger than before. >> i think this is our sixth conversation since the weekend, and it's been a great working relationship to make sure that we're doings jobs people elected us to do. i cannot thank the president enough for his personal concern and compassion for our state and for people of our state. >> president obama and new jersey's republican governor chris christie expressing mutual appreciation for one another yesterday, talking about the joint, federal and state response to hurricane sandy. this hurricane is obviously a huge and extreme weather event. but it is moments like that, moments like that that make this what is known in politics as an october surprise. joining us now is steve kornacki, co-host of

by allstate. click or call. >> we thank you for the empowering of our searchingant, our 44th president, to inspire our nation to relieve that yes, we can work together, to achieve a more perfect union. and now, lord, in the complex arena of human relations, help us to make choices on the side of love, not hate. on the side of inclusion, not exclusion, tolerance, not intolerance. >> sean: that was reverend joseph lowrie, giving the benediction of president obama's inauguration in 2009 o. that day, he preached we should spread love, not hate. he appears to some to be doing the exact opposite. according to a report in the monroe county reporter, over the weekend in a re-election rally, lowrie, talk about this lack of african-american turnout in georgia in 2008 is quoted as saying, i don't know what kind of a blank wouldn't vote with a black man running. all he did with the stimulus was genius. nobody intelligent would risk this country with romney. and also, quote, lou resaid that when he was a young militant, he used to say all white folks were going to hell. then he mellows and said, we

stocks, allstate, progressive, chubb, and if you take a look, you can see allstate opened down, then rallied since, but the volumes very, very light, nothing abnormal, so if you look at all of them, most of this em -- not a lot of volume, not a lot of activity, and i will continue to drive on this theme, what i am hearing is people are sitting on their hands and don't expect a lot of movement until early next week. >> we want to bring in jim paulson, chief investment strategist, brian belski, chief strategist with bmo capital market guys. good to see you guys. jim something wrote how great does that opening bell sound? it was a good thing to have. >> i think so. ty end of the day i think this is more a human tragedy and t-term economic hit, because it wasn't a financial panic which closed the market, which a lot of closures have been panicky. but even though it was closed for four consecutive days, it was opening elsewhere. and every day we had pricing action going on somewhere. futures here, overseas market, that allowed us to keep track of where we were, so i think that took

in the northeast. allstate, travelers, chubs, aig, hartford, any number of those would have exposure to the northeast. >> what were the other? >> allstate, travelers, chubs, aig, hartford. >> gloria, we have to run, quick question and i know two years does not make a trend, given we have two storms in way we haven't had in many years does that change how insurance is going to be marketed for example up here? >> i don't think it's going to change how it will be marked. i think demand will pick up. there's nothing like seeing your neighbor's house float away or burn down or have some problems for to you want to go out and buy more coverage in the future, so i think you'll see increased demand. i think pricing will get an extra little boost. i don't know if it's enough to make this a hard market but rates have been moving up because of the losses from last year, but also because of very low investment yield. >> gloria vogel, thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate your perspective. >> thank you. >>> i think we have a shot of seaside heights, where if you remember yesterday, th

insurers here in new jersey. about 11% market share. liberty mutual and allstate just below that with about 8%, and then chubb falling just below that with just over 7%. we should also note that a report from credit sweet said that as losses start too get into the $20 billion and $30 billion, allstate and chubb will be set to benefit from some of that, though we should note with the markets just opening today, those are definitely going to be some stocks that people will be watching as the market reopens and some of this damage is to be expected. of course, residents no doubt still reeling, and governor christie said fema will be a strong force here, no doubt, for many, many months. and he kept stressing that word, noting that this will be a very long recovery process. people are just starting to try and put the number on very early estimates. back to you. >> kayla, it looks like we're taking a few hits from your shot, but it is surprising to see the lights behind you. i don't know if you can still hear us, kayla. have they had these lights on the whole time with generators? is that a new c

about. that's insurance for the modern world. esurance. now backed by allstate. click or call. violation chairman of the faith and freedom coalition chapter in ohio. good morning to you, doctor. >> good morning, steve. what a great weekend for democracy in america. >> we are right on the cusp of the big general election which is tuesday. you say that you think. we're going to put up a graphic, doctor, that shows the impact of evangelicals in a couple of the swing states they account for 30% of the vote in ohio. 31% of vote in iowa. 26% of the vote in wisconsin. and you say, doctor, that they are energized to get out there and vote for mitt romney. why? >> there are a number of reasons why they are energized but particularly when the president endorses same sex marriage. when he endorsed or took away a lot of religious liberties with the affordable care act this group became very energized. if you back up to the 2004 election which was a major election regarding the marriage amendment. the way that was won in ohio was the rural voters outvoted the metropolitan area. 250,000 vote margin wa

recommend for people right now? i understand because of dangerous driving conditions, allstate highways are closed now. it's a nonemergency vehicles starting at 1:00 this afternoon. if you have to get out of your house, well, what are the alternatives? >> well, we're not writing tickets for cars. that's -- we're trying to get trucks off right now. that's our focus, and also encourage people to stay home. if you are at home and at a place that we've already asked you to leave, then any time you can leave is a good time, unless you are surrounded by water, and tonight is our most critical time, depending on the wind at high tide and high tide begins in connecticut at 10:00 p.m. and then plays itself down the coast until about midnight when people will have the highest volume in the western portion of the sound. you know, leave. we've told about 260,000 people that they should vacate where their residents are, and a good number of people are listening. >> is this a mandatory evacuation in your state? >> vacs are given on a local basis. we have told everyone to use category four maps for to

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're just four days away from electing a president and it's really anybody's game. in the tell allstate of ohio, we are there live and will talk to officials to find out who they think is winning. hour two, "fox & friends" friday starts right now. >> steve: good morning, everybody. live from studio e, we've got the great eric bowling from "the five" with us today. >> eric: love it. >> steve: brian taking another day off. meanwhile, president obama and mitt romney are making their final pitches to voters with four days to go until the election. mike emmanuel is live in hilliard, ohio. mike, why is the president spending so much time in ohio, he said with tongue in cheek? >> steve, good morning. three stops in ohio today. you're going to see president obama and key surrogates in the buckeye state basically from this point forward until election day. ohio and wisconsin are clearly part of president obama's midwestern firewall, if you will, trying to make sure that mitt romney does not have a path to get to 260 electoral votes. so expect to see the president here and two other stops later t

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